Upgrading Our Programming Paradigm

2024-09-13

Upgrading Our Current Programming Paradigm

• remove time-sharing

• remove memory-sharing

• disallow function calls as IPC

• add MOP - message oriented programming - in addition to function calling

  • need syntax such as `f⟪42⟫` in addition to `f(42)`

By “remove” I mean to not make it the default. Of course we need such things as memory sharing for efficiency for certain situations, but, memory-sharing shouldn’t be the default in every language, hence, shouldn’t be the default in every application. At present, most programming languages assume deep-down memory-sharing, hence, we need to support apps with bloatware like preemptive operating systems and extra hardware like MMUs. If a language uses heaps, then the heaps should be isolated, not global.

Multi-core cpus share memory. That makes system software harder to write and causes bloat.

We don’t need time-sharing at all anymore. Just motherboards with many single-threaded CPUs.

See Also

References: https://guitarvydas.github.io/2024/01/06/References.html

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